The International Weekly Miscellany - Volume I, No. 4 | Page 9

by compassion, the municipality has
given permission to have the name changed to "Avenue de Montaigne."
The ex-Allée, says the writer who informs us of the circumstance, is in
great jubilation, and is crying with enthusiasm "Je suis sauvee!"
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"NAMES HIGH INSCRIBED."--It is stated that the names of nearly
every distinguished man in every department of literature and science,
from the remotest antiquity down to the present time, are inscribed in
letters of gold on the outside of the new Bibliotheque de Sainte
Geneviève, which is now rapidly approaching completion. The list is

naturally one of tremendous length, and covers not less than three
whole sides of the vast building. It is impossible not to admire the spirit
in which it has been devised, and the impartiality with which it has
been executed. Altogether, it does the highest credit to the Parisians,
and especially to their municipal authorities. The names are arranged in
chronological order, but without date, and without regard to the
nationality of, or to the peculiar distinction achieved by the individual;
thus the two last names are those of Berzelius, the Swedish savant, and
Chateaubriand; and a little above them figures Walter Scott, Byron, and
other English immortals. Living celebrities are of course excluded.
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MR. HARTLEY, a benevolent English gentleman, directed in his will
that £200 should be set apart as a prize for the best essay on Emigration,
and appointed the American Minister trustee of the fund. The Vice
Chancellor has decided that the bequest is void, for the reason that such
an essay would encourage people to emigrate to the United States, and
so to throw off their allegiance to the Queen! Another decision equally
wise was made at the same time in regard to a prize for a treatise on
Natural Theology. The learned Vice Chancellor regarded it as
calculated to "subvert the Church."
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RECENT DEATHS.
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ROBERT EGLESFELD GRIFFITH, M.D., died in Philadelphia, on the
27th ult., in the fifty-third year of his age. Dr. Griffith possessed fine
talents; in addition to a thorough knowledge of his profession, he was
familiar with most of the branches of natural science, while in botany
and conchology he stood second to few in this country; and his social
and moral qualities were of the highest order. He filled in succession
the chairs of Materia Medica and Pharmacy in the Philadelphia College

of Pharmacy; of Materia Medica, Therapeutics, Hygiene, and Medical
Jurisprudence in the University of Virginia. Whilst laboring in the latter
station his health failed him, and he was induced to seek a winters
residence in the West Indies in hopes of its restoration. It became
evident, however, that his health was permanently broken, and for the
last four years he has resided in his native city, Though suffering much,
his energy and industry never flagged: and he has given the results of
his labors in his Medical Botany and his Universal Formulary, two
works which will secure him a permanent reputation. He also enriched
by his annotations a number of works republished in this country,
among which we may mention Christison's Dispensatory, Taylor's
Medical Jurisprudence, Ryan's Medical Jurisprudence, Ballard and
Garrod's Materia Medica.
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F. MANSELL REYNOLDS, the eldest son of the late F. Reynolds, the
dramatic author, died recently at Fontainebleau. He was long intimate
with and favorably known to literary circles in England, counting such
men as Wordsworth, Coleridge, Bernal, Lockhart, Hook, and many
others, among his personal friends. As the editor of "Heath's
Keepsake," when it started, he proved himself a person of taste and
ability. He was also the author of "Miserrimus," which excited a
considerable sensation when published, and of one or two other works
of fiction, which, together with his contributions to several serials,
displayed much variety of talent.
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JOHN ROBY, author of "Traditions of Lancashire," and other works,
which have been as popular as any of their class, is mentioned as one of
the persons lost in the "Orion" steamer. Mr. Roby was long a banker in
Rochdale, and partner of Mr. Fielden, and though an excellent man of
business, his mind was deeply interested in literary pursuits and in
cultivating the friendly intercourse of literary men.
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Prof. CANSTATT, of the University of Erlangen, died on the 10th of
March, after a long and painful illness. Dr. C. was one of the most
distinguished physicians of our times, and had won for himself a lasting
reputation by his work on the diseases of old age.
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ORIGINAL POETRY
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The following graphic picture of domestic happiness in humble